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....to love the film "Love Actually"

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tinkywinkyshandbag · 02/12/2015 23:45

Yes its totally cheesy and unrealistic but that's all part of the fun, its a funny film. With some genuinely touching moments of pathos. The scene where Emma,Thompson I getting dressed after being given the Joni Mitchell CD gets me every single time. Love the "porn" stars, love Bill Nighy. Great film and I will be watching it this Christmas. So there!

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Firsttimemom2013 · 04/12/2015 16:10

This is one of my all time fav films, love Richard Curtis films my fave scene in love actually have to be Hugh grant dancing!

FishOn · 04/12/2015 16:35

we love it too - if DH has a particularly bad day at work he'll come home with wine and say 'I think I might need to watch LA' Grin

Just in cases...

StillMedusa · 04/12/2015 16:36

I'm not a cheesy film lover... but...this is the film we watch every year when my girls 23 and 21, come home for Xmas.They are a doctor and a nurse and they both work a long way away... and it's our 'we are together again' film.

And I always cry at the very end.. I love it..good bits, crap bits.. and especially Bill Nighy!

squoosh · 04/12/2015 16:38

I think everyone is allowed to love a bit of cinematic cheese at Christmas time.

MoriartyIsMyAngel · 04/12/2015 16:44

The romance between Colin Firth and the beautiful Portuguese girl is sweet.

No it isn't! When he proposed they had not spoken a word to each other. He had no idea about her personality, her likes and dislikes. He just liked how she looked while cleaning his house for him.

It's all grim. There's nothing about that film that I like.

squoosh · 04/12/2015 16:46

I like imagining I'm tazering the brat as he runs through the airport.

redannie118 · 04/12/2015 16:55

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Wheretheresawill1 · 04/12/2015 16:59

Love it. Is it on TV soon?

Clawdy · 04/12/2015 17:20

Moriarty not sure why the Colin - Aurelia story could ever be described as grim. She fell for him too, they both fell in love without speaking each other's language...and they did get to know each other. Sometimes that happens! It did with my sister and her partner,and they're still together after twenty three years.

MissBattleaxe · 04/12/2015 18:10

I do I wonder weather this has happened to her in RL or if shes just the best fecking actress in the world.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/12/emma-thompson-kenneth-branagh-helena-bonham-carter-affair_n_4260000.html

TesticleOfObjectivity · 04/12/2015 18:25

I agree clawdy. She learnt English while he learnt Portuguese. People are under...I don't know the word... Not treating her as a free human being by thinking it's entirely up to Colin Firth.

TesticleOfObjectivity · 04/12/2015 18:34

Earlier this thread made me realise I got 'ant and dec' from Loves Actually. It's just dawned on me tgsat I also say 'just in cases'.

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LittleBeautyBelle · 04/12/2015 18:49

I love it too, actually :-) I like a lot of those kinds of films. It's a great Christmas time movie along with It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Rudolph, the Grinch...we try to go to the Nutcracker most years...I'm feeling very festive now!

LuckyCornish13 · 04/12/2015 19:09

I've never watched Love Actually, I feel like I'm missing out now so hopefully it'll be on over Christmas Xmas Grin

ZanyMobster · 04/12/2015 19:34

DH and I love it, we watch it every Xmas eve. Makes me cry every time. Proper feel good film unless you're single when is probably the opposite.

ZanyMobster · 04/12/2015 19:37

I think the opposite to Moriarty about the Colin Firth storyline, I feel like they got to know each other without being able to speak the same language which is lovely.

TBH I don't think these types of films are supposed to be read into that deeply anyway.

Dragonglass · 04/12/2015 21:43

Dh and I love watching this film. I'm reminded of the Rowan Atkinson scene whenever I shop in Boux Avenue. I have to bite my lip to stop myself laughing when they wrap my new pants in tissue paper and ask if I want scented petals in the bag.

PreemptiveSalvageEngineer · 05/12/2015 10:31

FishOn, you should paraphrase Liam Neeson and say: "We need Emma, we need Alan, we need Hugh dancing...." Xmas Grin

scarlets · 05/12/2015 10:39

I enjoy it.

Can't stand the absurd Prime Minister/secretary storyline though.The bit with the USPredisent was particularly cringeworthy.

That Emma Thompson scene is heartbreaking.

ShelaghTurner · 05/12/2015 10:50

I agree with all of the above and want to add that that child singing All I Want for Christmas in the heavy breathy Mariah Carey-ish too grown up way makes me want to vomit.

jollyfrenchy · 05/12/2015 21:20

Sidge - you're missing the point, ET's character doesn't stand by her sleazy husband what she does is make a massive effort/brave face in order not to spoil her kids' Christmas, then dumps him in the most stylish, understated way that makes him realise what a twat he's been (much more effective than swearing/throwing things at him).

MissBattleaxe · 05/12/2015 21:39

I didn't think ET dumped him. I think they stuck it out but it was never the same.

choirmumoftwo · 05/12/2015 21:41

I also can't stand MM's totally unnecessary swearing throughout, but otherwise love it, warts and all.

squoosh · 05/12/2015 21:41

Yes that's what I think too. That's what made it more moving than the more obvious confronting him and throwing him out.